Portrait

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This work examines the practice of portraits as a way in to grasping the paradoxes of subjectivity. The text is written from the perspective that the portrait is suspended between likeness and strangeness, identity and distance, representation and presentation, exactitude and forcefulness. It can id...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Nancy, Jean-Luc
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Portraits > Philosophy.
Portraits > Philosophie.
ART / Subjects & Themes / General.
Art theory.
Art.
Christianity.
Deconstruction.
Figuration.
Painting.
Portrait.
Representation.
Subject.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; PORTRAIT; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the English- Language Edition; Introduction: The Subject of the Portrait; The Look of the Portrait; The Autonomous Portrait; Resemblance; Recall; Look; The Other Portrait; L'altro ritratto; Character; The Eye; Visageity; Mimesis; Withdrawn Presence; Ipseity; Theophany; Revelation; Divine Abandonment; Dis- figuration; Eclipse; Infinite Detachment; Coda I; Coda II; Coda III; Notes; List of Figures

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